Irene Ortiz, M.D.

Associate Professor

Attending Psychiatrist, VAMC

·         M.D., Michigan State, 1984

·         Residency, University of New Mexico, 1985-89

·         Research Fellowship, University of New Mexico, 1989-91

·         FDA Psychopharmacologic Drugs Review Committee 2000-2004

·         National Advisory Committee, National Hispanic Medical Association, 1999-2005

Areas of Specialization: Geropsychiatry, cultural psychiatry, mood disorders

e-mail: irene.ortiz@va.gov

Selected Publications:

Ortiz IE, Romero LJ, Cultural implications for assessment and treatment of depression

          in Hispanic elderly, Annals of Long-Term Care (in press)

Ortiz IE, Torres, EC, Curanderismo and the treatment of alcoholism: findings from focus group of Mexican curanderos, Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly 2007;25(4):79-90

Romero LJ, Ortiz IE, Finley MR, Wayne S, Lindeman RD, Prevalence of depressive

         symptoms in New Mexico Hispanic and non-Hispanic white elderly, Ethnicity and

         Disease Autumn 2005;15:691-697

Romero LJ, PJ Garry , M Schuyler, DA Bennahum, C Qualls, L Ballinger, V Kelly, C

         Schmitt,  B Skipper, IE Ortiz,  RL Rhyne, Emotional responses to APOE genotype

         disclosure for Alzheimer Disease J of Genetic Counseling 2005;14(2):141-150 

Ortiz IE, LaRue A, Romero LJ, Sassaman MF, Lindeman RD: Comparison of cultural bias in two

         cognitive screening instruments in elderly Hispanic patients in New Mexico. Am J Geriatr

         Psychiatry 1997; 5(4); 333-338